“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start”–Nido Qubein
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.” -Howard Thurman
“THE INITIAL CHALLENGE for an organizer—or anybody who’s going to provide leadership for change—is to figure out how to break through the inertia of habit to get people to pay attention.” – Marshall Ganz
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
-Bill Gates
“American politics was polarizing even before Barack Obama arrived in the white House, and the media discussion of that politics had polarized along with it. The paradoxical result was that the more bitter the divisions became, the more likely it was that everyone in any given studio or on any political Web site would agree with one another.”–Mark Thompson, Enough Said
“(We) cannot become what we are trying to replace”–Cory Booker
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”–Abraham Lincoln
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
“You have tackled life’s challenges and although there are surely more to come no obstacle is too big for if your heart drives your actions then they will speak loudly. So move with conviction.”
“You want a revolution? I want a revelation. So listen to my declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel! Work!” —Angelica Schuyler, “The Schuyler Sisters” from Hamilton: An American Musical
“They say that time changes things. But in reality, you have to change them yourself.”
~Andy Warhol
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”
~H.L. Mencken
“Soak up life. Squeeze out fear. Leave your mark.”
~Anonymous
thoughts for tomorrow
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